Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Benjamin Franklin
Creation comes before distribution or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.
Ayn Rand
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort. … This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.
James Madison